[committee] Increasing the price of Coke

[Ewan MacLeod]

It's been changed to 96c, pending review.

UniSFA and Unigames sell their cans at $1 which is a pretty standard
price around uni.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:55 PM, David Basden <davidb at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> Much of that time was not during semester as well.
>
>  Traditionally coke has been a very significant source of income. We've
>  always been cheaper than UniSFA at least, and keeping it below $1 has
>  kept sales quite high.
>
>  We shouldn't be making a loss on it, but with the volume of Coke that
>  is drunk we don't need a 100% margin (although I realise that Scott
>  wasn't actually suggesting that much). I really, really think it should
>  be kept < $1 if possible, if only for the psychological effect.
>
>  David
>
>
>
>  On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 06:04:24PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
>  > Hey guys
>  >
>  > A quick grep says we've sold about 547 cokes since Jan 2, so about 5.5
>  > cokes a day in the 99 days in the current cokelog.
>  >
>  > Extrapolating, we can expect to sell approximately 2000 cokes a year,
>  > so shoving the price up 14c to $1 adds an  estimated additional $281 a
>  > year to our gross earnings from coke, and I presume most of that would
>  > be profit as we're not insane enough to pay more than 86c for a can of
>  > the stuff.
>  >
>  > Of course, UCC would be more expensive than Unigames and UniSFA, so
>  > sales may drop somewhat..
>  >
>  > Grahame
>  >
>  > On 10/04/2008, Anil Sharma <Grand Poobah Maset> <maset at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
>  > > It's always been about profit.  Notice how we sell stuff (or at least we
>  > > used to) at higher prices than UniSFA and UniGames?  Convenience of coke
>  > > credit goes a long way.  Back in the day we used to screw around with prices
>  > > to see exactly how high we could get them before people started going to
>  > > other clubs to buy drinks.  Coke makes UCC a lot of money so we can buy
>  > > machines and other stuff.
>  > >
>  > >  Large coke runs down to Claremont/Floreat/Subiaco isn't too hard, and every
>  > > member in coke group is responsible for participating in these runs.
>  > > Coles/Woolworths will always be cheaper than the IGA, and often do specials
>  > > like $9.99 for a 24 can block.  Just turn up and see if you're lucky.
>  > >
>  > >  Cheers,
>  > >  Anil
>  > >  (procrastinating)
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >  On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Alix Chinnery wrote:
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > > Strongly against this idea. Or at least the part about putting coke up to
>  > > $1. I didn't realise it was about profit? It shouldn't be. Providing a
>  > > service to club members shouldn't be about profit. Some gain is good, sure,
>  > > it allows us to get things for the club. But a small increment on coke
>  > > prices isn't going to pay for a new computer.
>  > > > -Alix
>  > > >
>  > > > Scott Young wrote:
>  > > >
>  > > > > What do you guys think about raising the price of Coke?
>  > > > >
>  > > > > I'm thinking of increasing it to $1 or so. I don't think it would
>  > > > > really impact sales all that much, but it would make a difference in
>  > > > > the continuity of the coke supply: currently the price of it at IGA
>  > > > > Broadway is ~83c a can, which doesn't give us much profit at all if we
>  > > > > sell it.
>  > > > >
>  > > > > Of course, I'd suggest that we still continue to try to get coke as
>  > > > > cheap as possible whenever possible, but there's no easy way to find
>  > > > > out which places are selling it for ~50c a can, and I think we'd be a
>  > > > > lot better off just buying a few cartons from Broadway every now and
>  > > > > then to cover the periods when there's none available (like now).
>  > > > >
>  > > > --
>  > > > Alix Chinnery
>  > > > secretary '08
>  > > > UWA
>  > > > a.e.chinnery at gmail.com
>  > > >
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